Cultivator



(No Model.)

J. F. SMITH.

GULTIVATOR.

WITNESSES I VEJVfTOR ATE'I ron.

JAMES F. SMITH, OF DANVILLE, ILLINOIS.

CULTWATO R.

SsPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,644, datedFebruary 9, 1886.

Application filed October 23, 1885. Serial No. 180,727. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it 121.22g concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES F. SMITH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Danville, in the State of Illinois, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Cultivators, of which the following is aspecification, reference beinghad therein to the-accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a plan View of my cultivator, showing the boxes on the axlein horizontal sect-ion. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section in theplane indicated by dotted line a: as, showing the devices for raisingand lowering the shovel-carryingbeams. Figs. 3 and 4. are detail views.

This invention relates to sulky or riding cultivators which are designedfor preparing land for wheat, oats, corn, and other cereals; and myimprovements consist in novel devices, which will be fully understoodfrom the following description, when taken in connection with theannexed drawings.

A designates the axle of the machine, which is a solid cylindrical rodof metal, and'B Bare the transporting-wheels, which are applied to turnon the axle, and which have the ends of their-hubs capped by means ofthe flanges act of tubular boxes B 13*, which flanges serve assand-bands for the wheel-hubs, while the boxes serve as spacers for thecoupling-boxes G C G G, to which the U shaped shovel-beam couplings Dare connected by means of pivot-bolts b, hereinafter more fullyexplained.

E designates the draft-pole, which has ap plied to it the double-trees.This pole is rigidly secured to a tubular box, F, which is cast entirewith longitudinal flanges c c, forming a channel in which said pole issecured. Ontop of the draft-pole, over the box F, is bolted the beamG,on which the drivers seat is sustained. The pole-box F is free toarticulate on the axle A, and this box is located midway of the lengthof the axle A, and its ends abut against the ends of two coupling-boxes,O 0.

Between the coupling-boxes CC and the inner ends of the hubs of wheels BB are tubular boxes or hub-caps B B, to lugs on which are rigidly boltedthe draft-pole braces H H. The hub-caps B B are located between theouter ends of the wheel-hubs and the coupling-boxes C 0, all of theboxes being prevented from endwise displacement 011 their axle by meansof pins 6 c, fixed to this axle at its extremities. It will be observedthat the several boxes can be readily slipped 011 the axle in the orderof arrangement shown, and that the boxes are free to articulate on theaxle, the wheels B B being free to turn on it. as above stated. Thecoupling-boxes G O G O are cast in diametrical halves, with lugs throughwhich bolts are passed,the rear bolts, 1), serving as pivotalconnections for the later ally-vibrating U-shaped couplings D,to whichare bolted the curved shovel-carrying beams D. These beams Dare securedto their couplings in pairs, and sustained by stay bolts or blocksf,-and to the longest shovel-beams a bar, J, is connected by staples g.

In combination with the bar J, which connects all of the longest beams Dof the gang of shovels, I employ the following devices, by

means of which the driver can at pleasure from his seat raise or lowerall of the shovelcarrying beams simultaneously, and also hold the samefree from the ground:

K K are two curved levers, which are pivoted at i to the angular blockbetween the pole E and seat-beam G, the lower ends of which levers areconnected by chainsjj tothe bar J, and the forward ends of these levershave secured between them a block, G, across which is securedafoot-piece, -L, that aiiords a stopsh oulder, k, for a pivotedlocking-loop, M.

Between the pivots of the loop M and the drivers seat G is a stop, N,fixed to the top of the seat-beamG, and designed to resist the backwardmovement of the levers K K when the shovels are fully depressed.

The foot-piece L is located in such relation to the driversseat that thedriver can conveniently press it forward,thus elevating all of theshovel-carrying beams. To hold up these beams the driver presses forwardthe upper end'of the loop M until it lies beneath the shoulder in. Whenthe shovels are down in working position, the loopM will lie flat uponthe seat-beam out of the way.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with the axle A, of thecoupling-boxes, their U shaped couplings,and

the shovel-beams, the transporting-Wheels, the to the shovelbeams, thefoot-piece L, having IO flanged spacing hub-caps, the pole-box andeshoulder, 7c, and the pivoted looking-loop M,

its draft-pole, and the pole-braces connected and stop N, as shown anddescribed. I

to the inner hub-caps, all constructed and I In testimonywhereofIaflixmy signature in adapted to operate substantially in the manpresence oftwo witnesses.

ner and for the purposes described. J AMES'F. SMITH. 2. The combination,in the machine de- \Vitnesses:

scribed, of thecurved levers K K, the lifting- THEODORE SMITH,

bar J, flexibly connected thereto and secured A. W. HEINLY.

